Introduction to Natural Language Processing
The landscape of NLP was very different in the beginning of the field. “But it must be recognized that the notion ‘probability of a sentence’ is an entirely useless one, under any known interpretation of this term 1968 p 53. Noam Chomsky. Probability was not seen very well (Chomsky has said many wrong things indeed), and linguists were considered useless. Recently deep learning and computational papers are ubiquitous in major conferences in linguistics, e.g. ACL. ...